Help4Flirts

Niteflirt Desktop Call Manager is Available

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:37:13 +0000

Yes, available! It is super slick, works great, and lives on your computer. Features include auto-mode, mail status and balance for each account, total in all accounts, and one-click login for any account on any browser but IE (IE is 2 clicks. But IE sucks.).

For more information, contact the programmer on yahoo messenger, where he is zairius.

Niteflirt Call Manager ready for release Friday!

admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:24:49 +0000

The beta testing phase for the new Windows desktop Call Manager is complete. The demo version will be released on Friday.

Features:

Turn all your accounts on or off at the same time
Automode
Disable or set to away accounts you don’t want to run at the moment.
Displays current status for each account
Displays current balance for each account and totals them
Email status monitor works with tributes, too!
One-click login for any of your accounts
Windows desktop program.
Your username and password stay safely on your computer.

You must be able to install Windows dot net framework in order to run this, so install that first. Demo version will be good for 5 days from activation. Sorry, Mac and Linux users, no version is planned.

Looking for new call manager beta testers

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:05:56 +0000

Looking for a few good beta testers for a Windows desktop call manager. You will need to have multiple accounts, have a Windows computer, and be willing and able to install Microsoft .NET framework 4 on your computer. (Sorry, Mac owners.)

If you think you can push it to the limit and accurately report errors you receive, this may be something you want to check out. Contact AsianGuyProgrammer if you want to take part.

Problems with broken listings?

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:56:23 +0000

Note: I wrote this before it became clear what had happened, and now have edited it to reflect that.

Niteflirt has installed a new HTML code screener on the site. What it does is look at your code, find errors, decide what to do, and do it.

Unfortunately the net effect is to turn it all into garbage if you have code errors or what is now considered to be “code errors”.

What is a “code error”? Using any tag that is not on the new approved list, which means that many common tags and attributes are no longer permitted.

If you’re reading this, before you hit “submit”, copy your code into a text editor like Notepad. If Niteflirt has turned your listing into garbage, you will at least have a copy of it to work from.

Things to make sure your code has:

Make sure each tag is closed. All tags start with a ‘<’ and end with a ‘>’. Leaving out the end brackets will do nasty things to your code. Adding stuff into your tags that don’t belong there will break stuff.

Using separate font tags for different font attributes will result in all of them being closed and made useless. Don’t do this:

Do this:

Don’t use extra , , , tags anywhere in your listing code. The only tag you should use is if you are using HTML to set the background.

Just because your code was working before doesn’t mean there was no problem with it. Browsers let you get away with all sorts of mistakes. Unfortunately girls have been lucky for a long time. It’s time to start learning to read and write good code, unfortunately.

The new restrictions mean that in some ways code will be more limited than previously. Most designs will have to be redone. Some things are no longer possible at all.

I set up a listing that displays the permitted tags. Many of them are totally useless unless you’re writing an article about computer code. The number of useful tags and attributes is much smaller than the list we have been given.

I also made a div listing template, for those of you who wish to look at some formatting that works.

And there’s always the list of approved tags and attributes to look at.

Sending Niteflirt email on an Android

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:12:52 +0000

I recall a while back people were complaining about not being able to send email on an Android. This week I am out of town, reading my email but unable to respond while I am out of my hotel room, as the same clients send email after email hoping for a response.

I got tired of that. In the old days we used to have a text email version, which might have done it. But that’s not available anymore, and what is is so junked up with javascript that you can’t type in the text window.

So I just made a little form to send regular email. That’s all it does, though there is the possibility it might be possible to switch between that view and ptv view if AsianProgrammerGuy gets working on it.

The link. You can use it right where it is hosted, and it will work on the account you happen to be logged in to. If that’s what you want to do, bookmark it.

Or you can view the source, copy, and host it yourself. And of course, bookmark it.

Sending mail on an Android is still a bit of a pain in the ass, but at least it’s doable with this.

AsianGuyProgrammer might make it part of his mega Android App if he gets around to developing one. That would be convenient.

Listing availability manager script

admin — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:49:53 +0000

You know how you have to go into each listing while your account is set to available and do a series of clicks in order to shut that listing off when you want to change the availability status of one or more of your listings? This is a new feature that came in with the transition. It actually works okay if you want to turn off some listings and then leave your account just like that for a while. If you want to turn on just one listing once, it’s pretty inconvenient. If you want to change frequently, you probably find it pretty inconvenient, too. If you have more than one account you want to do this to, well, OMG it can take forever.

Now the old pre-transition feature enabled a flirt to turn off the whole account, then force turn on just one listing. As soon as she changed her account availability again, the settings were lost. So it wasn’t useful for, say, shutting of your cam listings while you are on vacation, because the settings would not stay.

Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well, lucky you. Never you mind.

For those of you who are suffering with this feature, I’ve written a little script, which is an HTML page that you save to your hard drive, bookmark, and open in your browser. When you are logged into your account, you can turn any listing off or on with just one fast click. I made a video demo to show just how easy it is to use.

This is hard-coded with your listing categories and SID numbers, which I would take directly from your listings. I would not need any special account access to code it, though if you have any hidden listings you wanted included, you would have to send me the links.

The info is not self-updating. That means that if you wanted to use the listing title it would be out of date when you change your listing title. Listing category doesn’t change, which is why I selected that. If you wanted additional information to appear in a separate column to remind you which listing is which, for example, that would have to be extra, depending on how much extra work it turned out to be.

Listings will be in the order they presently appear. If your listing order changes due to activity and ratings on new or previously quiet listings, that won’t change unless you get it edited (or edit it yourself, which a person who is very good with HTML form submission might be comfortable doing).

The cost is $10 plus $1 a listing to do all your listings. If you need it edited to add more listings later, the cost would be $5 plus $1 per each new listing added. To delete a listing at a later date would be $5.

If you have hidden listings you want included, you will have to give me links to them.

If Niteflirt changes their code so it stops working, I will fix it for free.

Email me through Niteflirt if you are interested. Blocked? There is now a little form at the top of the sidebar where you can unblock yourself.

Amazon.com wishlist tutorial and code creator

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:17:10 +0000

The tutorial will help you create the wishlist, and the HTML code creator will create a buton code for you from your Amazon.com wishlist permalink and your choice of the following buttons:

It’s really simple. Button images only work on Niteflirt.

Amazon.com wishlist button code creator

Your first blog post

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:16:07 +0000

One more thing about images before starting to write.

If you click Media in the left sidebar and add new, you will come to your WordPress uploader. So if you want to use it for your photos or videos in your blog, go right ahead. It won’t take the place of FTP for anything else, though.

Now it’s time to write. Log in to your dashboard, if you are not already there. You can start a New blog post by clicking the down arrow in the Posts button on the upper right-hand side of the window or the one in the left sidebar. I don’t know about you, but my title is going to be Test Post. You should probably pick something that sounds less like a tutorial blog.

When you click down in the main textarea and start typing, you will see your permalink to that post appear. If you change your mind and change your title, you can click the edit button to edit it. Post names in the permalink need to be in the same format as slugs. So my post name is currently /test-post/. If I wanted to change the title to This Is A Test Post, the name slug in the permalink could be /this-is-a-test-post/. You can’t use symbols and punctuation except for hyphens in the post name slug.

Type several paragraphs.

If you want a picture, upload one and code it like this:

If you want a small photo with text running alongside it, you will need to add an align attribute to the image to align it to the left or the right.

When you are finished with your post, go to the right sidebar. You probably want to add a category or two for your post. Categories are something you expect to write a lot of posts for, that people may later want to sort through your posts to find all of one type. Click the +Add New Category link, enter the new category, and click the button. New categories you add while writing a post will be automatically selected.

Go down to the Post Tags. Tags are not limited to something you may expect to write a lot of. You can add all your tags at the same time, by putting commas between them. You can use multiple word tags and category names, too.

Now scroll down to the All in one SEO Pack box at the bottom of the page. Enter your post title at the top, a 160 character or less description, and keywords at the bottom. Some themes nowadays may already be optimized. Others are not. Don’t worry about it right now.

Now scroll back up and click the Preview button in the Publish section of the right-hand sidebar. A new tab or window should open with your preview in it. If you like it, publish. If not, keep editing it until you have it as you like it.

One more thing. If you click the Edit link next to Publish immediately, you can change the publishing date of your post to any other date in the past you want. If you pick a date in the future, your post will post automatically at that time. So you can write your posts ahead of time and have them post for you on a schedule.

I’m done for now. Feel free to make requests.

Uploading photos, videos, and other files

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:59:29 +0000

The issue most people have with uploading photos is that they are used to using a photo-uploading site like photobucket. You visit an account page in your browser, you click an “uploader” button to select files, it uploads, and then it gives you the URL to access your photo.

When you upload through FTP, it is actually simpler, because what you are doing is just putting the photos where you want them. You know where you put them, or at least you will after you get the hang of it, so you don’t have to be given a code.

Here you are looking at your domain on your server. The domain is selected, so you can see all the folders and files within it. What you want to do is right-click in the bottom frame, select Create Directory, and name the new directory photos. Then right click again, create a new directory, and name it videos. I am using lower case letters intentionally. It can get confusing and easy to mess up if you mix them, so most people just use lower-case.

It will look like this.

Now click on the photos directory to select it. The contents will display below. It is empty.

We want to put an index page in there. Go to the domain directory on your computer where you put the blank index page you created in Notepad yesterday.

Upload it into your empty photos folder.

Do the same for your videos folder.

Now, let’s view that index page. How do we know what its URL is? Well, remember in a previous post where you learned that “Remote site:” is the directory you are in.

In this case the directory is displayed as

‘/example.help4flirts.com/photos’

Remember a url has to start with ‘http://’ to work. So we will have to add

‘http:/’ + ‘/example.help4flirts.com/photos’

to get

‘http://example.help4flirts.com/photos’

Do that with yours. Copy it into your browser and see what you get. If you have done everything right, you should get a blank page. If you get an error page, check to make sure the url starts with ‘http://’, two slashes, not one or 3. Start by viewing your domain, then add your /photo folder to it. The reason you see that blank page is because the browser always looks for an index page in a directory, if you did not tell it which file to look for.

Now view your videos index page in the same way.

You will also view your index.html pages in your photo and video directories by adding them to the end of the folder url. So if the folder is

‘http://examples.help4flirts.com/photos’

and we want to add

‘index.html’

to it, we just add them. But we have to put a slash between the folder and the file to show your browser that the folder holds the file.

‘http://examples.help4flirts.com/photos’ + ‘/’ + ‘index.html’
or
‘http://examples.help4flirts.com/photos/index.html’

It’s time to put a photo in my photo folder. I of course have some photos on my computer. Before you look below the screenshot, what is the photo URL? Check to verify by copying it into the address bar at the top of the page and viewing it.

The URL of the photo is

http://examples.help4flirts.com/photos/img0.jpg

I have put a video in the video folder. What is the video URL?

The URL of the video is

http://examples.help4flirts.com/videos/video.avi

One last example. What is the photo URL?

http://examples.help4flirts.com/photos/photo-sets/photos.jpg

When naming files or folders for the web, you should never use blank spaces. Use hyphens, underscores, or leave out the spaces.

Valid filenames: my_photo.jpg, my-photo.jpg, myphoto.jpg
Invalid filename: my photo.jpg

One last thing, how do you use the image? I have a code generator, but if you got through this, you are ready to do it yourself.

HTML tags start with a ‘<’ and end with a ‘>’. The image tag contains an ‘img src=’ which stands for ‘image, source equals’. That is telling the browser that the URL is next. Put the URL in quotes and here is the link for my first image:

Adding plugins and themes to your WordPress

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:10:02 +0000

First of all, you will need to make sure you have an unzip utility on your computer. I have a free download I use. A lot of people have recommended 7-zip to me, so if I needed one, that is the one I would install. Plugins and themes contain many files and come in a .zip format, so you will have to unzip them to install. If you have winzip and know how to use it, great. If not, try 7-zip.

I have two plugins I want you to install. Create a new folder in your Web Folders directory named Blogs, and in that create a folder named Plugins and another named Themes.

First you are going to download Bad Behavior, which is designed to block comment spam from spambots. The download you need will be found in the second paragraph, under the title Stable. The text is bad-behavior.2.0.38.zip. The link doesn’t work here because I want you to download it from their site. When you click to download in Firefox, you will be asked if you wish to save. Click yes. Then, right click the Bad Behavior download in the download popup list (not showing? Click Tools => Downloads to make the popup appear) and select Open containing folder from the menu. When it opens, the file will be highlighted. Right-click it and choose the option that says “extract to”. From the menu, select the Plugins directory in your new Blogs directory and accept.

Now, in Filezilla, find that Plugins Directory. Note that there is a bad behavior folder within a bad behavior folder. Click the outermost folder and you will be able to see its contents down below. It should look something like this:

Now click the Plugins directory.

Click the bad-behavior folder to select it.

Now look at the two frames in the right-hand side of your Filezilla window. When examples.help4flirts.com is selected in the top window, you can see your blog directories and files below.

Click the ‘+’ sign to the left of the domain name and the folders will display above.

Now click on wp-content in the top frame.

Click the ‘+’ sign next to it.

Click the plugins directory.

Now you can right-click the folder in the lower left-hand frame, select upload, and the entire bad behavior folder will upload into your plugins directory.

Next, I want you to download All-in-one SEOpack, which will help make your blog much more search engine friendly. The process is the same. Download, unzip, then upload into your plugins directory.

Let’s go set up these plugins. Select Plugins in your left-hand sidebar. You will now see Bad Behavior listed as one of your plugins. Click the activate link to the left of that plugin. There is also a Bad Behavior link in the Settings file, which you can visit if you are curious. You can wait on that, as it probably doesn’t need to be changed.

All in one SEO pack is going to be a little trickier to set up. Click the activate link next to the plugin on the plugins page. A red stripe will appear at the top of the plugins page telling you that you need to go to the admin page to enable and configure your plugin. Click the link in that message to go there.

Scroll down to plugin status. Select enabled.
Home title: pick the title you want to display in the blue strip across the top of the browser window. I have chosen “Homepage of WordPress demo blog.”
Home description: I have used “This blog is being used as a demo to go with the domain registration, hosting, wordpress setup, and file upload series of tutorials on my blog at http://help4flirts.com”.
Home keywords: Pick words that you want people to find your site for. I have selected “WordPress, installation demo, tutorials, hosting, domain registration, file uploads”.

That’s probably all you need at the moment. Scroll down to the bottom and update options.

I was going to show you how to install a new theme, if you don’t like the ones that came with your blog and find one out there you do like. But you already know how to do it. Download the theme and unzip it into a Themes directory you will create in the same Blog directory where your Plugin directory is. Then upload it into your Themes directory in your wp-content directory. It will automatically appear in the list of themes you have available to you on your Themes page you can get to by clicking the Themes link in the left-hand sidebar here.

A note about themes: some of them are tricky to set up. Some of them are tricky to use. Be prepared to give up and try something else if the first one doesn’t work for you.

Maybe tomorrow I can finish up the blog by having you write a new post. Then all we need to do is show you how to upload files.